Tom Wolseley
from Urban Forest
from Urban Forest
from Urban Forest
from Urban Forest
from Urban Forest
Title: from Urban Forest
Date: Ongoing
Medium: Photographic prints on aluminium
Artist: Tom Wolseley
Exhibition: En Plein Air, 2015
From artist:
‘Urban, Forest’, C type prints, dimensions variable, ongoing.
This project is made up of large format photos of trees in the city, singly amongst the infrastructure of the buildings, flyovers and bill boards.
By photographing them in series I emphasise the forest for the trees, and the uncanny sense of nature infiltrating the city. This explores the dialectics of ‘nature/civilisation’ ‘wilderness/city’ and suggests a more porous relationship.
The genetic diversity of the plant population of London is greater than that of the countryside. Species from all over the world inhabit the garden centres, parks and micro climates of the city, flourishing and creating volatile ecosystems of their own. Like a botanical reference book, or explorer’s catalogue of plants, this project records the trees of the city, but unlike them it makes no attempt to structure them into classifications, native or invasive, merely records the relationship of ‘forest’ to the built environment.
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